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Tony Blair’s apology for 2003 Iraq invasion: Implication for Syria
October 27, 2015, 6:52 AM IST
At the heart of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s qualified apology for the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a clear guideline for future. It is not enough to dislodge autocratic and authoritarian dictators. There…
October 27, 2015, 6:52 AM IST
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Problems of India’s power sector
October 27, 2015, 6:42 AM IST
It is welcome that power minister Piyush Goyal is hard at work on getting the bankrupt electricity sector back on the rails. A plan that entails state governments taking on the accumulated losses of their…
October 27, 2015, 6:42 AM IST
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Allowing induction of women fighters in IAF a welcome move
October 26, 2015, 6:25 AM IST
The decision by the government to allow for the induction of women fighter pilots into the Indian Air Force is a welcome move. It is in keeping with the aspiration of women to serve the…
October 26, 2015, 6:25 AM IST
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National capital goods policy won’t help the sector
October 26, 2015, 6:19 AM IST
The Draft National Capital Goods Policy would appear to be an employment guarantee scheme for babus rather than anything designed to expand and improve India’s capital goods sector. The sector is today defined more by…
October 26, 2015, 6:19 AM IST
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Reform, to tackle Punjab’s problems
October 24, 2015, 6:34 AM IST
Since 20 pages of the Granth Sahib were found torn up earlier this month in a gurdwara in Punjab, the state has boiled over, with protests, police firing and casualties. Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal,…
October 24, 2015, 6:34 AM IST
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Government should let private cos set up and run bullet trains
October 24, 2015, 6:30 AM IST
Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) has reportedly submitted a favourable feasibility report on running a bullet train service between Mumbai and Ahmedabad and offered to finance the project at 1 per cent rate of interest,…
October 24, 2015, 6:30 AM IST
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Why Maharashtra government’s justification of ban on dance bars is ill-advised
October 23, 2015, 5:29 AM IST
The decision by the Devendra Fadnavis administration to appeal against the Supreme Court’s decision reiterating the 2013 stay on banning dance bars is ill-advised. In persisting with the ban, the Maharashtra government is turning its…
October 23, 2015, 5:29 AM IST
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Will Andhra Pradesh’s new capital Amaravati be a model city for a new India?
October 23, 2015, 5:20 AM IST
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu took the first formal step to building a brand new capital city for the state by getting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone this Thursday….
October 23, 2015, 5:20 AM IST
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Deshapriya Park gridlock: How crowd management could ensure joy for everyone
October 22, 2015, 3:18 AM IST
The attraction of the world’s largest idol of Durga proved irresistible for the lakhs who poured into south Kolkata’s Deshapriya Park from Saturday. But poor organisation and policing threaten to spoil the show altogether. For…
October 22, 2015, 3:18 AM IST
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Why government’s Accessible India campaign is an excellent idea
October 22, 2015, 3:02 AM IST
The government’s plan to rate public and private companies for disabled-friendly initiatives as part of the ‘Accessible India’ campaign is an excellent idea. Hiring policies in India are generally skewed against disabled people. So, such…
October 22, 2015, 3:02 AM IST
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Investors want certainty and stability in the tax system
October 21, 2015, 6:00 AM IST
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has called for a transparent and predictable tax regime. His words are well-timed, coming as they do just before the Budget exercise starts. Investors want certainty and stability in the tax…
October 21, 2015, 6:00 AM IST
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Tolerating lawbreakers like Shiv Sena incentivises violence
October 21, 2015, 5:50 AM IST
On the face of it, the skies won’t fall if India does not resume cricketing ties with Pakistan. But there is a bigger message that is already out there since the Shiv Sena took over…
October 21, 2015, 5:50 AM IST
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‘Make in India’ should not be an enforced, artificial swadeshi drive
October 20, 2015, 5:49 AM IST
There has been some consternation over the fact that the giant Vallabhbhai Patel memorial statue to be installed in Gujarat isn’t being made in India. To add to the heartburn, it’s not any foreign country…
October 20, 2015, 5:49 AM IST
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ET Awards 2015: Government must clear roads for India Inc’s stars
October 20, 2015, 5:35 AM IST
They say if you can drive in Mumbai traffic, you can drive anywhere in the world. The winners of this year’s Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence are F1 drivers of industry, succeeding against the…
October 20, 2015, 5:35 AM IST
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For plugging the supply gap, government needs to raise yields of pulses
October 19, 2015, 7:32 AM IST
With the spiralling prices of pulses, the main source of protein for the poor, the government has only firefighting measures to offer, and little to address the structural issues that limit supply. Policy interventions such…
October 19, 2015, 7:32 AM IST
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Why PM Modi needs to box those deaf ears
October 19, 2015, 7:22 AM IST
Once upon a time, there was a prime minister called Manmohan Singh. He was known across the lands as an honest, incorruptible man. And yet, the same honest man, because of some less-than-honest men in…
October 19, 2015, 7:22 AM IST
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CBI is no Keystone Kops and continues to remain a mere sarkari puppet
October 17, 2015, 6:29 AM IST
A special court to investigate the 2G scam has dismissed the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) charges on a particular aspect of the case. This related to whether ‘excess’ radio spectrum had been allocated to…
October 17, 2015, 6:29 AM IST
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SC striking down NJAC is closing the door to accountability
October 17, 2015, 6:26 AM IST
The Supreme Court seems to have misunderstood the warning inherent in the phrase ‘Physician, heal thyself ‘ and, instead, treated it as a literal solution. Instead of a transparent and accountable system, the justices have…
October 17, 2015, 6:26 AM IST
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One time financial assistance to incomplete NHs sensible decision
October 16, 2015, 5:54 AM IST
The Centre’s decision to grant one-time financial assistance to ‘physically incomplete and languishing’ national highway projects is sensible. It would boost connectivity and get stalled projects going. Several build-operate-transfer (BOT) road projects were based on…
October 16, 2015, 5:54 AM IST
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Sebi should apply its mind to NSEL-FTIL proposed amalgamation case
October 16, 2015, 5:51 AM IST
Here is a curious case of an official clarification of a news story confirming it definitely. Outgoing finance secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, said a story in The Financial Express, wrote to the finance minister criticising the…
October 16, 2015, 5:51 AM IST
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